Vol.17, No. 69, Autumn 2024

As an in-house lawyer, managing legal risks is a critical part of your role. A Legal Risk Framework, used as a critical business document, enables you to speak to the...Read more

Business operates in a world of risks including geopolitical, regulatory, environmental, and macroeconomic. Many of these risks cannot be controlled. On the other hand, “conduct based risk”, or risks stemming...Read more

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cutting-edge technologies, AI-driven business cases and blockchain solutions are like two relatives who don´t know each other. The reason is that the AI-inherent black...Read more

The interest in the proposed topic arose from the need to discuss the social and economic changes brought about by the concept of compliance and the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Law. We...Read more

India’s tryst with internet intermediary liability can be traced back almost two decades to when the Information Technology Act (IT Act), 2000 saw the light of day. With the rapid...Read more

This article provides an overview of how in-house legal services are provided to the government of the State of Delaware, discusses the role of the government attorney as a check...Read more

In over two decades as the head of litigation for international companies, I encountered questions of whether cultural differences contributed to our contract disputes with parties in different countries. These...Read more

As a General Counsel for almost 25 years, the past 17 with a global manufacturing company, I have had the opportunity to observe employees working across many different cultures and...Read more

In the few short years since I wrote an article for the International In-House Counsel Journal advocating for the stronger integration of technology into the strategic planning of in-house legal...Read more

In the late eighties and nineties Microsoft’s stock and popularity was soaring. At that time, it was arguably the hottest tech company in history. Microsoft was employing thousands of tech...Read more

The recently adopted NIS2 Directive places novel and stringent compliance requirements before a wide selection of essential and important entities (energy, transport, food production, telecoms, etc). The actual number of...Read more

The election of Donald Trump for a second term of the US Presidency is of considerable concern to the European Union (EU), NATO, and states worldwide in general owing to...Read more

This article discusses the rise and fall of corporate structures commonly referred to as “conglomerates.” They represent a collection of different companies, either in distinct industries or concentrated in one...Read more

Scientists recognise a dual planetary crisis: climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. The current extermination of nature by humans is often called the sixth mass extinction. Climate breakdown is caused by...Read more

Tributes have abounded for James Earl Carter, Jnr., the 39th President of the United States of America who died in late December 2024. This virtually unknown Southern peanut-farmer-turned-politician, former Governor...Read more

A friend recently observed that lawyers (like many other professions) have the potential to apply their work skills to do good for the community. He noted that practitioners of the legal...Read more

For those awaiting transformation of the legacy legal delivery model, it’s been a long, frustrating wait punctuated by high hopes and dashed expectations. The Economist raised legal transformation expectations in...Read more

On 18 July 2024, the Arbitration Bill was introduced in the House of Lords. The aim of the Bill is to update the current arbitral framework, the Arbitration Act 1996...Read more